Talk to Me (2007)

 

Release Date: August 3, 2007

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Writer(s): Michael Genet, Rick Famuyiwa

Starring: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Taraji P. Henson

Estimated budget: N/A

U.S. Box office: $4,533,261

Foreign: $245,115

Worldwide: $4,778,376

 

Outspoken ex-convict Ralph "Petey" Greene (Don Cheadle) talks his way onto the air at a white-owned radio station in 1960s Washington, D.C. Fueled by the new music and social upheaval of the times, he courts controversy while becoming the voice of the black movement.